St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-30
SOME PLAINLY PUT TRUTHS.
Subjects Under General Discussion and
Facts of Public No!0-
riety.

remember once the Tribune was made
defendant in libel suit brought as the
result of sheer careleSSneSS by one OF
its reporters. How it did rip and tear
the air and its hair over the contempti-
bic meanneSS OF the man who would
bring libel suit, aided and abetted
by a ShySter lawyer. How it raved over
the peanut-souled attorney who took a
libel suit on shares and wanted the
New York laws engrafted into the Min
neSOta statutes too quick. It's different
now. And the Tribune wants 100000
because Elder Stewart said he gave
more every year, in charity, than the
whole establishment was worth. The
court and Jury will decide whether
this is actionable and meanwhile
the public will laugh. But the
Tribune has only partially
kept its word. 1t once vowed vengeance
on the placid elder and announced that
William Edwin Haskell had cabled from
Spain the authority to bring an action.
Young Haskell just at that time was
off on his wedding trip. He was wan
dering through the gardens of the Lin
deraXa in the soft effulgence ofan Anda-
lusian moon lit evening, enjoying the
traditional sweets of honeymoon, and
he gave no heed to- Elder Stewart and
his news letter roots. Again it is
to prosaic life and as the editorial
head of a thoroughly live and
aggressive paper" is interested in these
things. And there is another amusing
feature. These articles which are now
alleged to have been defamatOry were
published in the News Letter, the deS
tiny of which was controlled by Will
Buckley; but the whirligig of time has
changed this, and now Buckley works
70 no Tril nd I oft ic
in the dreamleSs sleep of death.
Of course Minneapolis wants ball
team next year. But it does not want a
team that by hard work will lose a ma
jority of games and come out in fifth
place. Minneapolis is just ambitious
enough TO want the best of everything,
and if a ball team is to wear its name it
must be good one. In these degener-
ate days, good teams cost money, and
there Is no use, sense or Judgment in
attempting to run one on Cheap John
scale. Base ball is public amusement,
and the public will only pay its money
to see what is good. A good team will
pay and poor one will not, so there
is both profit and economy in
turning out ball team that is bang up
and that can knock the socks OffSt.
Paul. Outsiders cannot realize the
LUCILLE, VI luG 10y dl MlHlltdpOllUdll WHICH,
he saw this years team win but three
games from st. Paul out of total of
eighteen. To succeed and make money,
Manager Foster must collect nine ath-
leteS who can mop the dust with any
aggregation John Barnes can get to-
gether. These pointers are rendered
gratis, but it has seemed that Manager
Foster is too much Of gentleman to
run ball team.
There is one thing more. Sunday
games seem absolutely necessary to
make money, yet Rev. Aleck Miller and
his committee of South Minneapolis
saints cannot be brought to see it in
that light. Even the pOnderouS weight
of the influence of Editor Ole Colburn's
paper has failed to change the views of
that Bible class. which has been backed
up by an memorable and hard-hearted
court. The plaudits when Elmer
Foster heaved the ball over the
leftfeId fence disturbed funeral
exercises at a cemetery about mile
away and the growl of disapproval of
one of Umpire FeSSenden'S decisions
sounded like a cyclone through mis-
sion Sunday school across the river. The
grounds must be changed, and will be
changed. Sunday games must be played
where the yawping over three-bagger
and the hilarious joy over a home run
will not disturb Sunday school superin-
tendents, bank cashiers and others of
the truly good.
Why cannot the police commission, to
use an expressive piece of slang, take a
tumble to itself? Aside from the fact
that it is doubtful whether the law UNI
der which it enjoys existence will sane
ton the summary removal of police
officer without charges or trial, the Ques-
ton of the moral effect on the force
shaking up of the force last May and
June, the men had just settled down to
something like efficiency, as the result
of the security felt in the fact that Whim,
malice and personal feeling could
not endanger their heads, when now
comes this new fear and its consequent
decentralization. 1t is even said spies
are at work watching them and report
ing trivial matters. All of this will
completely upset and demoralize the
force, and another epidemic of bur-
glaries and robberies may be expected.
1t is too bad some of the commissioners
cannot be tapped and little common
sense and judgment injected.
-.
1t seems this latest story in connec-
ton with Albert Knittle and the monkey
wrench and the discovery of st. Paul
lady who purchased wrench is pure
canard. Detective Quinlan has worked
it up thoroughly and satisfied himself
there was nothing to it. But suppose
st. Paul lady had bought the wrench.
How did it get into the Minneapolis
lookup? 1t was little homogeneous that
lady, 1.-The wife of man high in So
ciety and herself leader of
fashion, should buy monkey
wrench for stable purposes. However.
Quinlan says he aScertained first, that
Attorney Campbell never saw Detective
O'Conner; second. that Detective
O'Conner never saw Attorney Campbell;
third. that they did not agree to adver-
tise for the mythical lady; fourth, that
no lady claimed to have made the
purchase; fifth, that Albert Knittle says
he knows nothing of it, and last, that
there is nothing to it. Finally, if the
story were true, what real bearing does
it have on the case?
~
There is rule at the Grand Opera
house prohibiting any employe from
applauding. 1t is dead letter. But it
is good rule and should be enforced
Yesterday afternoon, for example, a
group of ushers and small boys occu-
pied rear seats and from their previous
knowledge of the play knew what an
encore would be, and generously gave
the audience pointers where to applaud.
This was kind of them, but it is poor
taste and should be stopped. Claquers
are not necessary adjunctS to Grand
Opera audiences. HELoT.
MEN IN MISERY.
Blue-Coated Guardians Uneasy
Under the New Rule.